A two-storey timber dormitory completed in 1938 for unmarried staff of the Taichung Prefecture Land Readjustment Association (臺中州土地整理組合) in what is now West District, Taichung. After the Japanese colonial era the Taichung County tax office took it over, initially as a singles dormitory and later as family housing. Laid out in a U-shaped plan and clad in weatherboard, it is one of very few two-storey official wooden buildings of its kind left in the city; it was registered as a historic building in 2016 and dismantled for restoration in 2024.
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- Status:Idle (閒置)
- Heritage designation:Historic Building (歷史建築)
- Address:臺中市西區四維街1號
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Links
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- Facebook: Writing Taichung (寫作中區)
- ShihTrip (施旅行)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.